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. g|lllill \ ~~zrz HOESofthi cepted style i i -.- = are made in a . ." S brown calf, gun EEEr Handsomely s == rated. Vcrybt military dress. \ ^ADEinav ! == 1 * this type , place in Spring , be had in whit - .-_ 11 ? 1 i _ ^ _ DiacR Ria, paxer Er~~l calf. Many pi - worn -with spat t ?m~T m \ v . SPRING and this type ar pro-buck, and o I - - - jn black kid, oi -Q V~1 ^ . f 1 binations ot ki ' jSr stylish and dresi Quality models. _llfillfl!l! REVIEW OF PRESS C ORIENTS 0> SENATORIAL RACE.; Jno. K. Aull. Columbia, March 10.?The anti-Reform press of South Carolina might well be likened to a storm-tossed ship at sea without a rudder. It can't right itself on any particular course in ths senatorial race. The majority of the anti-Reform newspapers have never onw lnv/1 ,f/\p Qonatrtr1 TiHlTlflT; uau aii? iv?o i.vi k/vaiwwv* * ? ? and they are sore and disgruntled because he wouldn't listen to them and retire. They want to take up some pIcp hut thev can't do it with. Tillman in the race. "?5.ey have realized all the time that they couldn't win with Tillman, and now that Tillman has got into the running: and disorganized them, they realize now that they can't win with anybody e!se The whole tenor of their comments upon the Tillman-Lever fiasco is a practical admission of this fact. A bound volume of these comments mijrht appropriately be entitled, "The Book of Lamentations." "'After patiently waiting several months to be drafted fox service,'* says the Spartanburg Journal, "United States Senator B. R. Tillman has discovered that the people of Scuth OAr?r\f oof 7~ 7^ nnmhflr , V. cli xjiliicx r*uuiu uvt iv i*uiauwi #and accordingly has become a volunteer." The journal, admits "that there would be a possibilify of Mr ! Blease defeating Senator Tillman and I they are therefore bringing pressure to bear upon Congressman A. F. Lever in an effort to have him make race for the senate/' The Columbia Record, however, which is as bitterly anti-Reform us J I11IIIIWIIilillllHI is type ave the a<r EE jPPJ, for Sprirg. They S ||$$||| variety of models, ^ metal calf or white. =~3 S&Slli titched and perfo- == WX$m ^coming with semi- rEE 'Zl 3 ? ? SgStf ^ ==::: sat m ? jCS; j ide range erf styles, Eg has an important ^ ; footwear. May e cloth or canvas, iH) Judi< it leather or black gg r imps like this are EE ^ s or overgaiters. ^ ' - Or SI |? aloru g of its || servi A/V oQ, ' I 31 Summer boots of = e made of white =EE V ther fabrics. Also r two-toned com- ^ J ^ d or calf. Very EE jy are these Queen EE i " ' iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii/iiii'iiiiiiilhnliiiiiiiiiiiiitiii iiHii)ti!iniimnii!B)iniiiiimiiiimiiiimia ! the Spartanburg journal?possibly a j little more so, if that could be posI sible?thinks "there would be iei? danger in a third man coming out." The "danger" of which it speaks is the election of Mr. BleaseThe Orangeburg Times and Democrat, a strong Tillman supporter, calls upon Mr. Lever to stay out of the race. "If South Carolina sends Congressman Lever to the senate (should he run) she loses," says tne Times and Democrat, '"not only the hei J / I which he can give as chairman of the agricultural committee but also that of Senator Tillman as chairman of tbj' senate naval committee?she relinquishes two important comniitte3 chairmanships for a minor committee membership." The Greenville News does not think j Senator Tillman can win. and say^ ! that ' the entry of Representative I j Lever or some other strong third j man is inevitable. Senator Tillman's i announcement," says the Nev/s. "that he will be a candidate to succeed him. i self is no political sensation, for 't j merely confirms .aeneral expectation. \ For many months little doubt has ex~ ; istecl as to the course he would fol. ; low. What counsel, if any. has guiu ! ed him. the News does not know, hut he has not hearkened to a respectable | and influential element of the press ! and the people. . . . There has been and will be considerable criticism of I Senator Tillman's repudiation of declaration in 1914 that he would not : seek another term. . . Few hjfre believed that Senator Tillman would i enter into an active personal canvass I i Few deemed it pos=iVe that he could f so on the hustings and participate I Iliflllllllliillfllllitlllitll : x::-.. V -.v./* " / ; -V W x^Wj hd, I igjtl I '&* ESS5P^5liBB^S51i^5ll5l i I ?##gg i? * 1&% Wi &$M?$k " ;'V ' omen of Amei Buy Wisely! Buy the Bes :ious buying of standard g> prices is true economy, i ty other article, bought fo may be an extravagance! 3 failure to fit, to wear ai ce. liable goods carry the : p, which is, your surety o ery pair of Queen Quality stly handled and properly reliable store, carries a 'antee, that of the dealer a; lomas G. Plant Company, I sackusetts,4 the manufactu 1. Summer & Newberry, S. C iiiiiiiiicaiiiiiiiiittiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiwfl in the county-to-county campaign. . . This system works well enough when there is mediocre opposition, but it takes on a formidable aspect when the opposition consists of a veteran and expert campaigner who already has a very considerable following. If long-distance campaign ling is successful in this contest, t'iii , will indeed go down as the political ] year of wonders." The Geenwood Index thinks that. I "without any reflection whatever upon i * the othef gentlemen who are also most likely to make the race, cne of them certainly, the belief now is that the final outcome, the second race, will be 7^tween Tillman inn Dlease. . . Congressman Lever most too timid about the matter. He is going to run. unless he change his mind." thinks the Index, and say-? "he might as well coipe right out in the open and say so. ... He has many friends and admirers in the Stat.'*, but whether enough to put him in the second race is a matter yet j * i? s A i~ T~\: ^ ^ e T j 10 ue aiscusseu. .vir. mai, m i-an! rens. is of senatorial size. He is j | man of marked ability and force. He j has the same handicap as Mr. Lever, j viz: lack of a sufficient following | right now to stick to him through | thick and thin." j The Greenville Piedmont, which has j been pursuing somewhat of a middle of-the-road course for t.^e past sev * <..* imo Hnm j erai years, says u\m in * u*j man sot back to the senate by a very | close shave. Neither of the candii dates running aga?n?t him that year j was a strong man with any hold upon ; the people of South Carolina. Even j then he onlv saved his bacon bv ar. 1 ll'lliril'r'W I'lni'Mi lllll'IITilllilllli E? "FAN Rus?a cs === or- white pro=== black leathers. ^ 1 = they will be w< EE sively this Spring -f.":-Vv: uca! j= I A re LI XN-sJLJ UO fore to a n = The type shown DOds at H black S V-Soaj zzzz Quality leather c \ SllOC ;== texture and long r price === patent anc^ot^ )ecause H id give HI 1 f value, n ' j JjJifilSp nd that j. UTING fc boots made < j fl canvas or cloth. ^ gun metai calf ai (== the styles for ee , |= "Girl Military" ' }? ures of Queen C pjillttlllllffli j eleventh-hour trick, whereby he Be- , ! cured the support of many men who . ' I I never before in their lives voted for J i him. Had a strong man been run- i j ning against Tillman in 19Iz. tne out- j come in all probability would have i ! been different.." The Piedmont says that there has been no evidence of Tillman's having been conscripted, ' and severely condemns him for vici lating his promise not to be a can! dfdate to succeed himself. "And i I | ! there is a Republican senator, we for- | 1 [ j get his name." says the _Pjedmonc. i "who has a right to another laugh at j Tillman. A couple of veara or so ago i Tillman made what purported to be i . ! a farewell address in the senate, lie | announced that he was. serving his | last term in the senate, as he would ' no | ag i"n be a candidate for menihrwJv \ Tf e>nn n 1 I senator snickered. Of course ho i snickered. He had served in the sen- ! j ate Ions? enough not on4 to know Till j man, but the average senator. When i li? t.r.i/-.lrov?krl Tillman tnrnpfl on him ! I -- I , furiously and outdid the Pharisee m j ; the temple in his 'T am holier than ; ; thou' attitude. In effect he said, I'' | am not like you fellows?when I say ! ; a thing T mean it and live up to it.' j | Tillman can no longer rebuke that j I nrm n fonotrir if hr* 55P"?in SVliplC- ! i nv>/u?yu?.(ui oviiui v t * v ** o I oss.'9 I j ! The Piedmont also says that Senaj tor Tillman has begun his campaign i j with th.v i:.-e of official franked erj velopes to carry his first political ] communication. "Does Senator Tillj man expect free service from the naj tional government a? well as tho ; | newspapers of this State in his effort j | to succeed himself?" it asks. "lie ipipraiipiffl 1??*l Jf, white canvas, SS: -buck, a3 well as Made on an idea! h medium heel, )rn quite exten- ~ : t ??/! - ~ j di IV* vuu?u?v* r - have come to the ^r-r larked degree. :?_ above is made of ? 5 Kid, a Queen SEE: >f wonderfully fine I life. Also made \er black leathers. =j! >otwear includes == i ' )f white pFO-buck, Brown calf and _ - ? i : K 1 c alou hiuuucu in irly Spring. The . models are feat- .?l~ ^uality designing. iiiiiiaiMiiiiiiiiiiifiiB' sent an 'address to the people of South Carolina' and wrote, 'Hope you can give it publicity.' It came in an envelope to which no-postage stains was affiled. It was in no sense an official communication. As a candidate, he is a citizen, not a part of the legislative machinery of our government. Other candidates will have to pay postage upon all their mailed J campaign communications. Postage i is i.o small item, of the campaign ex. ; penses of any candidate who has op! position, even though he presents his ! claims from the stump. (Naturally it | will be a "bigger item of the expense.; of a candidate who does not take the stump." The Columbia State, usually the \ bellwether of the flock, had not, up j until today, sufficiently recovered j from the shock of the crash of its i hopes to say anthing, but is probably utilizing the Sabbath, calm today to try to get its wits together to put up ? * f i. some Kinn or a iruin. These extracts from newspapers which have always fought Former Governor Blease and are opposed to him today, reflect the sentiment of the anti-Reform newspapers; that Tillman can't defeat Blease. and thaf his announcement, with the Lever statement tied on to it somewhat as the tail to a kite, lias made it impossible for anybody else to defeat Blease. And in sorrow and sadness they mournfullly admit it?not in so many words, but in effect, as their lamentations show. The Reform faction, which numbers a considerable majority of the voters of South Carolina, is lined up solidi? behind Former Governor Blease. Even without the stampgde in the anti-Reform ranks.. the 'Reformers were confident of victory alterations the line in the primaries this sum-,;. m *' t mer, because the people are tired of ' a mixture of autocracy and bureauc- K racy in charge of their State; they are weary of ring and cliqu control . . which never takes Into account the great masses of the people, and the? are determined to make their State democratic in fact as well as in name, to have a voice in their own Stata government; to put an end to extravagance in the expenditure of their money, ana 10 ooiueraie a regima which, preaching a State government of all the people, and "law and order'* has practiced the most extreme, bitter and narrow partisanship in tha entire history of South Carolina, and under which there has been more lawlessness than under any previous admirtistrat'on since 'he davs of re construction. A.rd for the first time in South Carolina's history, (the days of Scott and Moses and Chamberlain excepted) a governor, elected upon a "law and order" platform, has sent the militia to dominate an election, and to enforce the decress of a magistrate over the prostest ofthe sheriff, throwing mill operatives into the streets, without giving them time to secure shelter from the bitter weath oi* ond Koc o nnrnro/l f Via ovnoneo Q/> ) UUU iiUd Uj;piU'VU LiiV/ Vy v|;vilv>V WVycounts of a whiskey constabulary for thousands of dollars of the State's money, sDent in red-Iisrht brothels, buying liquor, and in such like man I / ner. The senatorial race will be narrow ed down to Blease and Tillman, if Tillman is livinsr, it now anpears, and that Blease will defeat Tillman is a foregone conclusion?provided, the people of the State do not sleep upon their rights, as they did in 1916-^in other words, if they see to it that the7 have a free ballot and secure a fair count. ; Mr. X. B. Dial, of Laurens, the only' other announced candidate, is a gentleman of wide 'business experience and abilitv, but it does not appear that he cati develon sufficient political strength to be a factor in the race In a statement which he has issued (and it must be remembered that Mr. Dial is an anti-Reformer, and that the votes he secures will come fro"! Tillman, and not from Blease?that this year Mr. Dial and Senator Ti!Imaft are on the same aide of the po. litical fence-*. Mr. Dial flays the Tillman announcement unmercifully. He says: "Six years a^o Tillman . was too feeble, or was unwilling to come be tore tne people or uie ctate, ana, moreover, ignored the vottrs by not writing a letter to the chairman of a single meeting. Furthermore, ha boasted in the senate of his re-elct:on in this manner. The same scheme seldom works twice. At this time ho asks the people to re-elcet him, stating that he desired to 'die in harness* and that he would not again be n candidate. If he is too feeble or ur willing to come before the people ce fVirv etofA if f/>A f A ranrACGrf t iic ciaic lie 10 ixx 111 in tu i us in the senate. Senator Tillman claims that it would be a mistake to make a change now. because he >? chairman of the naval affairs committee. This is about the rankest nonsense one ever heard of. When he is defeated ex-Governor Swan sort, of Virginia, a democrat, succeeds him. Tn fact, it is geuerally reported that Swanson has been doing th9 principal work of the committee for several years. . . Again, the chairman of a committee is earned only by length of service. . Even under this rule six years ago Tillman was not accorded the chairmanship of the appropriations committee, to which he was< entitled. We presume this was on account of infirmity and because he was not able to attend to its affairs. The senate conferred this honor on Martin, of Virginia, thereby breaking the time-honored custom. . . . Besides, the people of the Stata do not believe in life tenure in office. The world is rapidly retiring czars, dictators and autocrats, Tillman is a man of some ability, but his talents have been used to destroy and not to create. His disposition is to abuse and crush and not to harmonize and build up. Consider his treatment of Trby, S^ell. Farley. Mcl^aurin, Talbert and a number of other men in South Carolina who fathered his career. Contrast ;his spirit with that of General Hampton, whose last word* were, "God bless our people, one and . all. white and black." S?nr?A thp TiUman-Lever statements. Former Governor Blease has received scores of invitations to make addresses in different sections of th3 State. He is outlining an itinerary, which will enable him to reach all the voters, as near as possible. Letters received from every county in South. Carolina show that the people have rallied to the Reform standard with 1 lit ?-3r ?' n 'r ?n enthusiasm which will swe<_p tha State. J